An Onondaga County sheriff's sergeant has resigned amid an investigation into the discovery of $650 worth of town of Clay equipment in his home.
Edward Blanch, a Clay police sergeant until the department merged with the Sheriff's Office last year, stepped down two weeks ago, Sheriff Kevin Walsh said Friday.
The resignation came shortly after sheriff's deputies were called to his home in Salina on Jan. 20 over a domestic dispute, Walsh said. Blanch's estranged wife, Karen Blanch, asked the deputies what they were going to do about all the stolen town of Clay equipment her husband had in the home, according to a sheriff's report.

Karen Blanch told the deputies her husband had taken the items right before the town merged its police department with the Sheriff's Office, the report said.
Deputies seized a Dell laptop computer, two external hard drives and a 35 mm camera that was stamped "Town of Clay Police Department," the report said.
Blanch said Friday he owns the two hard drives, and that the Sheriff's Office called him recently to get them back. He would not comment on the laptop computer.
Edward Blanch, 37, acknowledged the camera was not his. He said it had been issued to him seven years ago when he was a Clay police officer. The camera should have been included in an inventory of equipment that was done before the department merged with the Sheriff's Office six months ago, Blanch said.
Blanch denied stealing any of the equipment.
The sheriff's internal affairs division investigated and referred the case to the Onondaga County District Attorney's Office, Walsh said.
Chief Assistant District Attorney Rick Trunfio could not be reached for comment.
Edward Blanch, a Clay officer for 15 years, said he resigned partly over personal problems and partly because sheriff's internal affairs investigators told him he could face administrative charges over the equipment. They told him those charges could have cost him his job, Edward Blanch said.
Edward Blanch acknowledged the equipment should have been inventoried, but said the allegations were being overblown. He said sheriff's officials were targeting him because he was a whistle-blower in a sexual harassment complaint against a supervisor. Another former Clay officer was the victim of the sexual harassment, Edward Blanch said.
"They didn't like the fact that I'd gone on the record in the victim's defense," he said. "This is kind of an excess. It's an attempt to silence me."
Walsh denied the accusation and said he knew nothing about the sexual harassment complaint.
The Sheriff's Office inventoried all of the former Clay police equipment at the time of the merger last year, Walsh said.